Penn v. State

The defendant, Charles Penn (often called Pete), was convicted of murder in the first degree and the verdict of the jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. From a judgment thereon the defendant comes here on proceedings in error.. Charles Johnson died at a hospital in Columbus about 4:30 o’clock on the morning of October 4, 1928, as a result of a pistol shot or shots received by him about 11 o’clock on the night of October 2, 1928, at his blacksmith shop and public garage at Clarks. The defendant made his *97home with his widowed mother, who lived in the same block in which Johnson…